HP Unveils the First Web Connected, TouchSmart Printer for the Digital Home
HP has a long standing reputation for making excellent all-in-one (printer / fax / copier / scanner) printers for home and SOHO. Now the company is expanding its offering by creating the first HP Photosmart all-in-one printer that enables users to print content on-demand from the Web via its 4.33-inch TouchSmart screen without a PC. [...]
QNAP Intros the First 2.5-Inch SATA, 8-Bay, Intel Atom-Based SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS
It was just earlier this month when a friend asked me if I knew of any 6 or 8-bay NAS servers that I would recommend for his ever expanding media collection. Of course, QNAP came to the top of the list. I ended up recommending the 3.5-inch SATA, 8-bay, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz TS-809 [...]
LG Demonstrates a 3D Version of Their LH50 LCD HDTV
We reported earlier this week that LG's LH50 (LCD) and PS80 (Plasma) HDTV models were now capable of streaming Netflix movies without the need of a PC or set-top box. Today LG in Korea previewed their new 3D HDTV experience on the LH50. Unfortunately, it's unclear by the Babel Fish translation of the Korean press [...]
Popcorn Hour Announces the Next Generation C-200 Networked Media Tank
Available this July, the new C-200 ($299) will become Popcorn Hour's most advanced media adapter in its crop of products. In fact, it's more than just a media adapter compatible with all your favorite media file types. The C-200 offers a new A/V component form factor, a wireless RF remote, a front panel LCD display [...]
Opera Unveils the Opera Unite File Sharing / Media Playback / Chat Extension for Its Web Browser
If you like what people have been able to do with file sharing applications like Dropbox (a great service by the way), you're also going to like what Opera is now providing through their web browser. Opera today debuted a new technology called Opera Unite that turns your Window / Mac / Linux PC into [...]
Hillcrest Labs Loop Pointer: In-Air Mouse for TV
Many of us first got a glimpse of Loop in late 2008 and at CES 2009. Well, Hillcrest Labs has officially brought the product to market this week for $99 and they have designed it to be compatible for use with a PC (Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X, and Linux), game console (currently only supports [...]
LG Delivers the First Broadband HDTVs to Natively Stream Netflix Movies
There's been lots of talk of Netflix streaming being delivered through game consoles, dedicated set-top boxes, and networked Blu-ray movie players of late, but now we finally have the first HDTVs available to consumers today from LG that are capable of doing this as well. According to the LG's press release, the 42/47-inch LCD LH50 [...]
aTV Flash Adds Loop Pointer Functionality to Its Platform
The developers behind aTV Flash have added support for the innovative in-air mouse called Loop [Amazon]. With it, users can now quickly navigate their AppleTV media library and control additional applications aTV Flash bundles into their platform like Boxee, XMBC, Jaman, NitoTV, Firefox, and others. A quick look around Hillcrest Labs, the folks behind Loop, [...]






